I gotta fucking quit my job man
Kid down early, chores done quickly, look at clock, how TF is it 10pm? Hobby time 20m fighting with codex until too lazy to reach from couch to keyboard, and focus on shitty tv for 15m. Wake up at 11pm. Go to bed. Wake up at 5am. Chores until 7am. Sit down to morning journal and take shower, right as kid is up. School, work, Lemmy on biobreak. And today was the healthy timeline.
I’m 39 and you just described why I don’t have children.
truth!
Right there with you.
Wake up at 530. Get myself ready. Wake the kids up. Get the kids ready and fed. Out the door by 720 to get then to school then me to work by 830. Work until 5. Drive home, an hour if traffic sucks.
On a good day, my wife beats me home and has dinner going. An hour to 1.5 hr family time before kids get ready for bed. Get them down, clean the kitchen from breakfast, to-go lunches, and dinner. And its 10pm.
How are we supposed to get by?
My parents had kids when I was 12 and 16 years old. So basically what you described, but my mom was physically disabled by then, and my dad was mostly absent, and I was in high school with a part time job. Cooked/cleaned/woke them up/put them to bed and all the in-between.
Sometimes I wonder why, and am ashamed, that I was suicidal and badly addicted by the time I moved out at 17, then sometimes like in this thread I am kind of proud of myself for surviving it.
I did eventually have a kid but in an arrangement with a couple lesbians, I get to be a part-time dad in my 40s and it’s pretty awesome.
Im glad you made it through that and am still here today. That kid has to love and appreciate it too
I saw this part:
On a good day, my wife beats me
and didn’t register what followed.
samesies
My gaming/hobby time is typically after getting the kids down too. As long as I don’t sit down and get distracted, I can manage to get some good time in, but my brain is tired by then.
Yeah this is something I had to hammer out of myself. Force myself to enjoy a videogame for an hour instead of “being productive” on a personal project.
Not to be too preachy, but it’s the same mindset that makes us good at capitalism that hurts us in these moments. It’s really hard to compartmentalize this.
The dog clearly not having any of it
That dog knows what’s up.
Literally, how tf did you hit this one right on?
@The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
I feel attacked
